Hello,

Happy Libra season with a twist. Lilith is in the house. In Libra’s house, so wherever that lives in you there is a rebirth on the rise.

Whether you refer to her as Black Moon Lilith or Dark Moon Lilith, she’s a force born from the Moon’s furthest point. Hidden and silenced in the shadows, Lilith is primal and raw, living off our basic instincts, yearning for recognition and respect.

For the next six months, Lilith will be bringing up our relational blocks, highlighting what’s uneven, pressing against our need to please and emotionally enabling us to act out our intentions.

Already Libra is in a major growth phase. Since July 2023 we’ve been deep in learning how to attain serenity and self-awareness as the Moon’s Nodes magnetically move across the Aries~Libra axis. Libra pretty much created compromise and has lived harmoniously and dutifully in supportive roles for lifetimes. Now the invitation is to make peace with that past and shift to something more sticky, by claiming serious space and determining our rightful place in relationship, partnership, friendship, self-ownership ~ wherever our Aries is found.

This understanding is penetrating. Voices are rising, even if the expression is internal for now. We have wants and needs asking to be released but they’re stuck somewhere because we haven’t fully realised what it is we really, really want. Or the knowledge is surfacing but we’re yet to grow the courage to touch that truth. To acknowledge what’s difficult to accept. That we might rock our boat right out to sea. And where would we be then? Alone, adrift, separate? Anathema to Libra.

The potential is both scary and liberating. When Lilith shows up we have to be in our truth. Expressing our real desires and intentions. Honest about what makes us ~ and others ~ uncomfortable.

Lilith Power

Lilith is dark and mysterious. She’s an incredible mystery living within us too. Her mythology is deeply feminine but energetically she resonates with all genders and orientations. If you’ve ever felt sidelined, ignored, restricted or rejected, Lilith lives in you. Some of us more strongly than others.

Lilith reflects our feminine rage. She refuses to submit, to compromise on any level. Sure, she has anger issues but for good reason ~ she’s patriarchy’s shadow projection onto the feminine, the archetypal femme fatale.

Lilith is anti-patriarchy but not anti-male.

She just won’t lay beneath a man. An on-top girl with an appetite, she’s the utmost expression of feminine sexuality. Erotic and alive, she’ll give you plenty of reasons why life is for lusting after. Lilith is raw and real, giving us the push to embrace our uncertainty, to look fear in its face and laugh. She’s the advocate you want by your side.

At her core, Lilith is great mother energy. She responds and tends to our hurts with the kindest care we can offer ourselves. Intimately understanding our wounds, she reunites us with our most vulnerable parts, aspects we’ve abandoned and rejected. Shut off for safety.

Lilith’s role is to bring consciousness to these defences so we can return to our true-natured, whole, heroic selves. But like all dark mysteries, before we can enter the sacred space of self-love we need to sacrifice something, to stand at the altar of honesty and offer up a part of ourselves, willing to let go of whatever false reality we’ve found ourselves in.

‘The only way we can tap into the great power of Black Moon Lilith is to sacrifice our fears, terrors and hungers.’

~ Dawn Bodrogi

The Origin Story

First up, there is no singular origin story for Lilith. What we know about her is gleaned from myths and sources that have shapeshifted over time. Each version pitting her against masculinity, God and goodness. Like Lilith herself, her history lives in the shadows.

AKA the ‘whore of Babylon’ (according to the Old Testament), the earliest references describe Lilith as handmaiden to the goddess Inanna, entrusted with the task to search streets for men and lure them back to partake in sacred sexual rites to honour and revere the goddess.

Lilith was the original liberated woman in mythology.

Most famously, when the Book of Genesis says that men and women were created equal in God’s image, we’re talking about Lilith. She was Adam’s first wife, but their marriage couldn’t be consummated because Lilith refused to lie beneath him and he was only up for missionary style. Lilith, furiously rejecting this forced submission, uttered the name ‘God’ (a name so holy that women were most certainly not entrusted to say it) and flew off to live alone in a cave by the Red Sea.

Lilith returns for revenge with her eyes on Eve, Adam’s second choice. There’s theories that Lilith and Eve are lovers but whatever the nature of their relationship, the great backlash begins here because Lilith is the snake who seductively tempts Eve and convinces her to eat the apple, ending Edenic life as we knew it.

The stories get really crazy now. Lilith is cancelled. Rather than victim she’s presented as perpetrator, distortedly imagined as the personification of evil. Said to possess claws, cause miscarriage, wickedly decide the fate of newborns, all to avenge her rejection.

Exiled and vilified, stories spread that she gave birth to hundreds of babies each day, only for them to all die. Men were so afraid she’d fly into their homes at night to tempt and ruin them, they slept with Bibles covering their genitals.

Incantation bowls were created and inscribed with messages to ward off evil Lilith, ‘who causes the hearts of men to go astray and appears in the dream of the night and in the vision of the day, who burns and casts down with nightmare, attacks and kills children’.

This is what really breaks Lilith. To be accused of murdering innocent children, the instigator of bloodshed, when she was the personification of sacred sexuality, revering life and feminine fertility.

Lilith is the great goddess who lost her power.

Lilith can’t win. She represents the twisted image of feminine polarisation. The complete shadow of Eve ~ the dark and dangerous woman vs the dutiful, doting wife and mother.

Outcasting Ourselves

Locked in her hurts, Lilith is stuck on the shore of pain and grief, preferring to be exiled for eternity and gripped by the constraints of her own claws than surrender to patriarchy’s rigid expectations and be exposed to the taunts and ridicule of society.

Lilith remembers when she was recognised. She yearns for her past and her golden goddess status. When she was worshipped for her femininity and free to live the fullest expression of her creative self ~ an essential, equal player in divine, healing, life-giving sexuality.

The tragedy is that in her extreme anger state Lilith’s ability to self-reflect is severely stunted and her stuckness destroys all possibility of new life and regeneration.

Lilith rages for reverence.

Our own Lilith is activated when we feel misaligned and misunderstood. Feeling cast out because we don’t feel capable, unfairly judged, unequal, less than and lacking. Internally we rail against the injustice. Externally we’d rather shock than submit, so fascinated and repelled by what we love/hate, envious of others who have what we want and want to be.

It feels foul to admit that we’re in that state of hate or shame or embarrassment. We’d rather flee like we don’t care but we do. We really do, obsessively so.

Wherever Lilith lives in our birth chart we have a huge need to be true to ourselves. But there’s an equally huge hole to dig ourselves out of, feeling fear around attaining our truth or having to sacrifice something for it. We give up and give our power away, living a life of little, intimidated too easily.

Our Lilith healing comes when we realise the pointlessness of waiting to be noticed or validated or appreciated, and take it upon ourselves to raise the ceiling of our own self-imposed cave. We reach a point of enough. Letting go of what’s no longer necessary ~ stagnation, feeling blocked, trapped ~ and we truly honour that ending.

This calls for space and self-awareness, a loving and gentle inner retreat. Consciously facing our darkness, the parts of ourselves we don’t want to share, and all the fears and behaviours that come with them. This is our sacrificial offering. Our initiation to the goodness of the goddess. Where we have the utmost of respect for our old and new selves, and we move forward, sucking the juice out of all stages of life and reconnecting with our vitality and vibrancy.

How will you cast yourself out of your uncomfortable zone?

Lilith in Libra

29 June 2024~26 March 2025

Lilith fights for her rights. She’s fought hard to claim space. In Libra, Lilith advocates even more for equality. She pushes for peace and argues for access, inclusivity and interconnectedness for all. She’ll represent anyone who needs a hand, a boost to get back on their feet or elevated to their proper place.

Lilith battles for wars to end. I hope she learns the art of compromise, that it’s not all about winners and losers. Sometimes we need to shift our weight completely or take the middle path to find fairness and restore justice. Because currently lines are drawn. We’ve organised ourselves into good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable ~ dangerously close to desirable and undesirable. You know how a difference of opinion is so divisive these days.

It’s hard, and many forms of relationship are feeling it. The potential to polarise and split into all or nothing and self-sabotage is very real. That’s the lowest form of Lilith. But Lilith in Libra can elevate and come from the heart, its highest expression. And when we respond with our heart and not from our rage, we make the best choice, for all of us.

Libra’s scales symbolise choice. When we balance and hold ourselves from the middle we have a choice. We’ll have many choice moments in these nine months. If we make a decision and it’s not the right one, we can change it. We can always choose to change.

A New Moon of Emotional Empowerment

Lilith’s signature is all over this Libra New Moon. We’re turning the familiar gaze on its head. Appraising our situation and sacrificing what needs to be shed. Offering up our voices and not holding back. Not giving up but letting go of what doesn’t need to be kept.

The feel isn’t hugely heightened in an overly dramatic sense. But it is very personal because of the intensely close line-up of Libran personal planets ~ Mercury, Sun and Moon ~ plus Black Moon Lilith and the South Node, pulling from our past.

It’s our Moon to see and be seen.

To honestly witness our reflection in all forms of relationship. Revealing our patterns and making our hidden dynamics known. From the way we initiate, communicate, assert ourselves, people please, play games, bend over and hold back.

We’re eclipsing for the final time in the Libra~Aries realm too and with the Sun in shadow, blocked by the Moon, our emotional blind spots are shown. Our inner eye draws our unconscious drives to the surface. To be offered up for sacrifice, which Lilith will love (or hate) but greatly benefit from.

To free our own Lilith from the dark and release ourselves emotionally that could be to stop being so agreeable. Making our affection conditional. Withholding intimacy unnecessarily. And instead, find ways to show our love, share what we really care about, say what needs to be said.

Relationships are complex and Libra is brilliant at seeing both sides, oscillating between what you want and I want. But its airiness keeps it up in its head, not wanting to get down and face the mess. Sometimes we need a little tension to throw us off. To relocate our centre ~ even if it means being self-centred ~ so we can find our equilibrium.

Our new cycle of relating could be by creating an updated self-love story. One that’s relationally responsive, we respect each other’s rights and have the courage to say how we feel. We give ourselves the space and grace to regulate. Ask for honesty and fairness because we identify as equals, realising it works both ways and applies to everyone involved. We position ourselves in a truthful light and never apologise for what we don’t want to see, understanding imperfection is part of life.

In this version of reconciliation we rise above what we’ve shown each other in the past, use fresh, forgiving eyes to vision our way forward and embrace our rebirth.

Love,

Kristin xxx